Cian T. McMahon, PhD

The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration

"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I’ve always liked “stray” but yes, “feral” definitely works too.

You’re like that sneaky tomcat that keeps all of the local house cats up late, laughing after dark, long after the humans have gone to bed.

I am looking forward to digging into this one soon… debut novel by trained historian and worldly raconteur @mylesdungan.bsky.social

Congrats, Myles!!

Henderson, Nevada, 5:16pm

Really looking forward to this! Registration details below 👇🏽

Yep, corner of University Place and Waverly Place.

What a fun night! Thanks to our fantastic hosts at @gihnyu.bsky.social

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
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Manhattan, New York, 6:18pm

Really excited to be here for the event. Have decamped to the Bobst Library Special Collection in anxious anticipation.

Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉

Our Irish Studies Seminar programme for the autumn is now available - all events will be in hybrid format and everyone is welcome. For more info and registration: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email judith.harford@ucd.ie.

Book cover showing an Italian family preparing to leave and an Irish family reading an emigrant letter, with a 30 percent discount code: NYUAU30

🗃️"Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move" edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513...
The official publication date is June 17 but you can order the book now from @nyupress.bsky.social
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel?

Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs.

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YouTube video by Immigration and Ethnic History Society Stacy Fahrenthold, Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class

Check out this book talk with Immigration and Ethnic History Society Board Member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social:

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The annals are in separate volumes in Dublin, in three separate libraries: @ria.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social, @ucdlibrary.bsky.social.

The UCD volume ends with the year 1169.

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The signatories are:
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Fearfeasa Ó Maoilchonaire
Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin
Conaire Ó Cléirigh
Muiris Ó Maoilchonaire

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The Annals of the Four Masters were completed and signed #OTD 1636.

This is the signature page (UCD-OFM Ms A13).

The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from AM 2242 to AD 1616. They were written, in Irish, between 22 January 1632 and 10 August 1636.

www.isos.dias.ie

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Really looking forward to this event next week! I can’t wait to learn from @emilymitchelleaton.bsky.social and @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social. This promises to be another great @iehs.bsky.social online book event! Registration details 👇🏽

***History grad students***

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@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!

50% OFF The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a 'nation of immigrants,' the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, an...

I haven't really taken to audiobooks yet for scholarly works, but lots of my colleagues and students like the format, and this is an excellent reading of my book by the acclaimed voice actor Bill Andrew Quinn @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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We treat Channel crossings today as exceptional, and the RNLI is called a "migrant taxi service." However, people have long sought refuge across the Channel. On this day in 1939, two German refugees were rescued in the Channel by the RNLI and brought to safety in the UK.

***Save the Date!***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold the next virtual mentorship event on Thursday, October 2 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM EST. The event is open to graduate students, early career historians, and independent scholars.

Stay tuned!

Abstract. During the nineteenth century female Irish religious orders established missions across the Irish diaspora which were designed with flexibility and adaptation in mind. The Sisters of Mercy’s personal letter networks allowed these women, who were often very young, to continue their religious and technical “apprenticeship” while abroad. These letters enabled women in the diaspora to maintain a sense of consistency and belonging across the oceans: with their sisters in Ireland and elsewhere in the world on an ethnic and institutional level. Engaging with these letters as both intimate conversations and professional reflections presents opportunities for investigating how long-distance institutional memory was developed and a continuing connection to Ireland and Irishness maintained. This article moves the focus of ethnic culture brokers from the priest and bishop to the formal and informal networks of women religious who worked within a system designed for men. In doing so, it demonstrates that these letters provided an important extra layer to public global Irish networks, a layer which acted as both a whisper network and an opportunity for reflection on efficient methods for varied work in large, fluctuating, and cross-class ethnic communities

Very happy that 'Blue Sunglasses and New Habits: Female Correspondence Networks and the Irish Religious Diaspora' is now out as part of a great double issue
@iehs.bsky.social Journal of American Ethnic History ed. by Cian McMahon & Darragh Gannon
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Spot on!

Ferriter reminds us that the people burning immigrants in effigy last week are descendants of those who fled Ulster with hopes for better lives in the mid-eighteenth century.

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***

Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:

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